Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-04-21

| the steamer Eagle WIS taking seal in
+! White bay. lIer less wit. three hun
red lives had been announced
Fred Klndle, employed in a tannerv
at Cincinnati, walked into the hopper
| OF the bark-mill, and before the ma
the knees were ground to pulp.
The southern winds have rapidly
wasted away the ice in the Straits OF
Mackinac. and preparations Tor a
speedy opening of navigation are
being made at all the lake ports.
A mob of twenty-five men forced
the jail at Ripley, Mississippi, on Sun
day night, and shot dead a murderer
named Williamson, who had taken a
change of venue from Union county.
At Hamilton, Ohio, on Friday, John
Hibner, Jr., assaulted Sheriff ST. Clair,
who shot him in the breast, infiicting
fatal wound. The senior Hibner
was defeated at the polls by Mr.. ST.
| Clair
A large party of stockbreeders
called at the White House, on Friday,
| and invited President Cleveland to
attend the National horse, cattle, and
] hog convention to be held next fall in
Chicago.
The anti-prohibitionists of Texas
will hold. State convention at Dallas
on May 4, and John Hancock will state
| his views. Three months later the
| people will vote ON the temperance
| amendment.
Alumni of Columbia college, repre-
| senting every part of the country,
gathered at New York on Wednesday
| to celebrate the one hundredth ami
versary of the establishment of that
| institution.
The whisky pool has purchased the
capacity of the International distilleTy
at Des Moines for $4,000 per annum,
payable in monthly installments. Mr..
Kidd will discharge 135 men, and close
ZIP on May Is.
The Beecher memorial committee of
Brooklyn has invited Rev. DR.. Joseph
Parker, of London, to cross the At
lantic and deliver an Grafton in June,
probably on the birthday of the de-
ceased pastor.
Mrs. M. j. Russell, formerly princi-
pal of a female college in Toronto,
was arrested in Chicago for begging,
at the instance of General Chetlain,
who claims to have been greatly an
noyed by her.
Eugene Semple, who was appointed
governor Of Washington territory, is
the son Of a former senator from Hi
no1s. Samuel D. Shannon, of Cbey-
enne, was appointed secretary Of
Wyoming territory.
Patrick McCarty was hanged Friday
at Fort Smith, by the United States
| marshal, for the murder of the Ma
honey brothers in Indian Territory.
Schade Scarborough was executed at
Clayton, Alabama.
Jay Gould was in st. Louis Monday
with Sidney Dillon and a. l.. Hopkins.
They inspected tract of land in the
southern suburbs said to have been
purchased as site for the Iron Noun
tain machine-shops.
The historical library of Professor
Won Ranke, of Berlin. containing
So, 900 volumes and $1,000 pamphlets
has been purchased for Syracuse uni
versity, and will next summer be
brought across the Atlantic.
Mrs. John Herbert. of Joliet, has
for three months lain as if dead, only
once in that period opening her eyes
and speaking. Fluids are forced into
her mouth. She appears like corpse,
and is reduced to a skeleton.
Louis Rebisso, of Cincinnati, has
secured a horse as a model for his
equestrian statue of General Grant
for Lincoln Park, Chicago. The ami
NAL came from Macon county, III
inois, and is sixteen hands high.
The commissioners appointed by
President Cleveland to investigate the
Pacific roads are Robert e. Pattison,
ex-governor of Pennsylvania; e. Ellrey
Anderson, an attorney of New York,
and David Z. Littler, of Illinois.
L.
General Knock, the Russian COM
suicide, brought about by grief at the
arrest of his Son for completely in the
attempt to assassinate the car.
The report Of the Department of
Agriculture for April regarding the
condition of winter grain and the COM
parative healthfulness Of farm ami
mails, compares favOrably with the
corresponding reports Of late years.
Live stock treigntS eastward from
Chicago remain substantially the same
as before tie Interstate commerce
law took effect. L is said that the
rate on djstil,ery cattle from Peoria
has been advanced from $40 to S24 per
car.
At Richmond, Indiana, about day
light, Sunday, Mrs. Jonas Bennett
walked out ON the bridge over the
Whitewater river and leaped seventy
five feet into the water, expiring
almost instantly. She was bride of
three days.
A company has been Incorporated al
Springfield, ILL.,, with capital of ST.
100000, to build railway from the
Indiana state line to Kankakee, Will
mington, Marseilles, Mendoza. and
thence to some point ON the Missis-
sippi river.
Another bequest by the late Miss
Catherine Wolfe, Of New York, has
just been made known to the public
$3.50, 600 to Grace church, ON Broad
way. the income Of which is to be
applied to the maintenance and decor
alton of the edifice.
The Commissioner of Agriculture
has sent to the Governors of several
States a bill providing for cooperation
with the bureau of animal industry IN
stamping out pleuro-pneumonia. The
act has already been passed i'll Viz
ginia and Michigan.
The new city officers of Watertown,
Wisconsin, met on Saturday evening.
selected minor officials. and made the